No One Survived the Mid-Air Collision near Washington, DC
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This is a Fox News alert. No one survived the midair crash near Washington, D.C.

I'm Dave Anthony. We are now at a point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. After an all-night search in the frigid waters of the Potomac River, where both the American Airlines regional jet and the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter it collided with went down after an explosion. We have recovered 27 people from the plane and one from the helicopter. Washington, D.C. Fire Chief John Donnelly, there were three soldiers on the helicopter, 64 people on the plane that's now in three pieces in the water. This is devastating news.

We are all hurting incredibly. That's American Airlines CEO Robert Eisen. The flight was coming in from Wichita, Kansas. Some of the passengers were members of the U.S. figure skating team. The organization put out a statement that the athletes, coaches, and family members were returning from a development camp following U.S. figure skating championships in Wichita. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says they're trying to figure out what went wrong, why they collided on a clear night. This was not unusual with a military aircraft.

flying the river and aircraft landing at DCA. The plane was just about to land at the time. President Trump posted on Truth Social, it's a bad situation that looks like it could have been prevented. This was hours after the president signed his first bill since returning to the White House, the Lake and Riley Act, named for the Georgia woman murdered last year by a man in the U.S. illegally. The law expands the ability to deport illegal immigrants charged with various crimes. Now,

President Trump also says as immigration raids continue nationwide, arresting people here illegally of committed crimes, he's going to send some to Guantanamo. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Hamas has set eight more hostages free from Gaza as part of a ceasefire. The first one was an Israeli soldier, then two Israeli civilians and five residents of Thailand. America's listening to Fox News.

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Again, our top Fox News story. No survivors in the midair crash last night between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. 64 people on the plane, three soldiers on the helicopter. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be back at the Senate for a second confirmation hearing. Is the Health and Human Services Secretary nominee? I believe at...

that vaccines play a critical role in health care. Insisting he's not anti-vax, not anti-food industry, but pro-safety. But Kennedy sparred with Democratic senators like Ron Wyden. Mr. Kennedy has embraced conspiracy theories, quacks, charlatans.

especially when it comes to the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Also this morning, two other controversial Trump nominees have hearings. Tulsi Gabbard in line to be director of national intelligence. Senator Tom Cotton chairs the Intel Committee. The cool question Gabbard tells Fox, he supports her. You're going to have a lot of Democrats voting.

critical of her today because she finally saw the light and left the Democratic Party and came over to the Republican side. The president's choice to be FBI director also under scrutiny. Kash Patel worked in the first Trump administration, including a senior advisor to the acting director of national intelligence. But now he's the president's pick to run the FBI.

He's got an uphill climb and quite a few critics, many of whom question everything from his experience to his beliefs. He said he'd close the FBI building in Washington, D.C., and turn it into a museum about the deep state and send the 7,000 people who work inside to go chase down murderers and criminals. Go be cops, he told a podcast last fall.

Ahead of the hearing, Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dick Durbin asked the FBI and DOD for more information about what he said were unauthorized comments Patel had made about the rescue of two Americans held captive by Iranian-backed militants in Yemen. Jessica Rosenthal, Fox News. On Wall Street, the day after selling a mixed bag, Dow futures are down but Nasdaq futures are rising. I'm Dave Anthony. This is Fox News.